OMINOUS
\ˈɒmɪnəs], \ˈɒmɪnəs], \ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_s]\
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Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; - formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
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Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; - formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
By Noah Webster.
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Foreboding or foreshowing evil.
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Ominously.
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Ominousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ominously.
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Ominousness.
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Pertaining to or containing an omen: foreboding evil: inauspicious.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Containing an omen; foreboding evil.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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